> Speaking as a developer, this becomes obvious the moment you step outside the romantic framing. I have been doing this for years, and the hardest parts of the

> Speaking as a developer, this becomes obvious the moment you step outside the romantic framing. I have been doing this for years, and the hardest parts of the job were never about typing out code. I have always struggled most with understanding systems, debugging things that made no sense, designing architectures that wouldn't collapse under heavy load, and making decisions that would save months of pain later. > None of these problems can be solved LLMs. They can suggest code, help with boilerplate, sometimes can act as a sounding board. But they don't understand the system, they don't carry context in their "minds", and they certainly don't know why a decision is right or wrong. It is becoming increasingly true that they do exactly this. In some cases, better than (some? many?) humans. Also, the anti-Marxist Objectivism rant has no place in this article, as well as making no sense. Yes, the woodworker could continue working with their hands. But in society, today, they require money in order to have food and shelter, and that money needs to come from somewhere. If the market devalues the process of doing work by hand, and comes to value the speed and consistency of doing work through machines and automation, then the artisan cannot choose to simply continue spending dozens of hours per week working wood unless they are independently wealthy or have some other source of income. Individualism is not paramount in a society in which you are forced to participate for basic needs.